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A friend of mine called one day and stated in a matter of fact tone, “you have to read this book; it will change your life”. The book was ‘The Power of Myth, by someone named Joseph Campbell. I was just divorced and trying to find my way in a strange new world after 13 years of marriage, a world in which I felt as one of the lost boys in Peter Pan. I was ready for something of substance but had doubts as to my friends implied assertion that this one book would open a new world of meaning to me. I was familiar with the works of Thomas Moore and M. Scott Peak so I wasn’t completely unacquainted with the idea of mythology as a psychological tool. But little did I know I was about to submerge into uncharted waters, pushing me intrinsically through the door into the abyss.Continue reading Hey Joe

Letters travel across a blue ocean Ascending toward the zenith of the heart Fluidity gives meaning between wordsA continuous song from the misty seaIn between the meaning is heaven’s gateWhere Andromeda keeps her watchStones set on the land to chart our course A beacon of ancient light before light ever wasI hear a blackbird sing upon arrival Continue reading Across A Blue Ocean

The Divine Fool Laila and Majnu (Qais) -Ganjavi (Persia) Qais falls in love with the moon princess, Laila whose name means sweetheart. Sadly her father marries her to another man. Qais love is so obsessive that he’s deemed insane and forbidden from seeing his beloved Laila in the flesh again. Thus he sees her in everything else. Qais roams the streets known only as Majnu, which in Persian means, “love stricken, possessed, madness, a lunatic”. Continue reading Onward To the Palace of Wisdom- Love, Pt. 1